This issue’s roundtable from our pediatric ophthalmology colleagues covers two important topics: amblyopia therapy and progressive myopia treatment. Our first challenge is to diagnose these two conditions at an early age.
Vision screening programs for children are a challenge. Ideally, we would like to recognize amblyopia and progressive myopia as early as possible, at the latest by age 5 years. Vision can be tested in very young patients, and at age 5 years, children should have symmetrical vision and no myopia.
Our group at Minnesota Eye Consultants worked with Phillips Eye Institute in